Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-14
A CROSS FOR EACH.
DR.. TALNAGB breaches ON THB SUBJECT
OF "STINGING ANNOYANCBS."
It Is the Small Singing An1oyancss Of Life That
Try Oar Mstae-Ths 0lly Way to Pre-
pare for the Great Troubles Of Life is
To Conquer the Small ones.

BROOKLYN, March 13.-At the Taber
nacle this morning, the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, d. D., expounded appropriate
passages of Scripture. He then gave out
the hymn beginning:y
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world 10 go free?
No there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me-"
The subject of his discourse was "Sting.
ing AnnOyances, and his text, Deuteron-
omy Ch. vii, V. 20: "The Lord thy God
will send the hornet" He said:
;. 1t seems as if
i THE INSECT WORLD
were determined to war against the hu-
man race 1t is every year attacking the
grain fields and the orchards and the vine
yards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska
grasshOpper, the New Jersey locust, the
universal potato destroyer, seems TO carry
on the work which was begun ages ago
when the insects buZzed out of Noah's ark
rs the door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies ont on its
mission. 1t is o species of wasp, swift in
its motion and violent in its sting. Its
touch is torture TO man or beast. We
have all seen the cattle run believing
from the cut of its lancet. In boyhood we
used to stand cautiously looking mt the
globular nest hung from the tree branch,
and while we were looking at the wonder.
ful paste board covering we were struck
with something that sent US shrieking
away. The hornet goes in swarms. 1t
has captains over hundreds, and twenty
of them attacking one man will pro-
duce certain death. The Persians at
tempted to conquer Christian
city, but the elephants and the beasts
on which the Persians rode were assaulted
by the hornet; so that the whole army
was broken up and the besieged city
was rescued. This burning and noxious
insect stung out the Hittites and Canaan
ties from their country. What the gleam-
ing sword and chariot of war could not
accomplish WAS done by the puncture of
an insect. The Lord sent the hornet.
My friends, when we are
ASSAULTED By BEHEMOTHS OF TROUBLE
great behemoths of trouble-we become
chvalric, and we assault them; we get on
the high-mettled stced of our courage, and
make q cavalry charge at them, and, if
| God be with us, we come out stronger
and better than when we went in. But
alas for these insectile annoyanCes OF life
these foes too small to shoOt-these things
without any avOirdupois weight-the
gnats, and the midges, and the flies, and
the wasps, and the hornets! In other
words, it is the small stinging annoyances
of our life which drive us ont and use us
up. Into the best conditioned life, for
some grand and glorious purpose, God
sends the hornet.
l remark in the first place, that these
small stinging annOyances may come in
the shape of a sensitive nervous OrgamiZa-
tiou. People who are Frustrated under
typhoid fevers or with broken bones get
plenty of sympathy, but who pities any
body that is nervous? The doctors say,
and the family says, and everybody says,
ooh! she's only little nervous; that's
ALL" The sound OF Il heavy foot, the
harsh clearing of heavy throat, discOrd
in music, want Of harmony between the
shawl and the glove On the same person,
curt answer, a passing sight, the wind from
the east, any one of ten Thousand annoy
anceS, opens the door for the hornet. The
fact is that the vast majority of the people
in this country are Over-worked, and that
nerves are the 1irst to give out. A great
multitude are under the strain of Lcydeu,
who, when he was told by his physician
that if he did not stop working while he
was in such poor physical health he would
die, responded, doctor, whether | live or
die the wheel must keep going around"
These persons of whom speak have a
bleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to
light on anything raw, and these people
are like the Canaanites spoken of in the
text or in the ConteXt--thcy have a very
thin covering and are vulnerable ut all
points. And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these
SMALL INSECT ANNOYANCES
NAV come to us in the shape OF friends and
acuuaintances who are always saying disa-
precabe things. There are some people
Won cannot he with for half an hOur but
YOU feel cheered and cOmlOrted Then
there are other people you cannot be with
for five minutes before yCu feel miserable.
They do not mean to disturb yOu,
hut they sting you to the
bone. They gather up all the yarn which
the gosSips spin, and peddle 1t. They
gather up all the adverse criticisms about
your person, about your business, about
your home, about your church, and they
make your ear the funnel into which they
pour it, They laugh heartily when they
tell YOU, as though it were 4 good joke,
and YOU laugh toO-Outside. These peo-
pie are brought to our attention IN the
Bible, in the book of Ruth: Naomi went
forth beautiful and with the finest OF
worldly prospects into another l2ud, but
after awhile she came back widowed, aud
sick. and poor. What did her friends do
when she came back to the city? Ihey all
went ont. and, instead of giving her COM
nonsense consolation, what did they do!
Read the book of Ruth and find out. They
threw ND their hands and said, us this
Naomi?" rs much as 10 say, How very
bad YOU lookw When | entered the MN,
istry | looked very pale for years, and
every wear, for four or five years, n
hundred times a year, was asked If was
not in a consumption: And passing through
the room | would sometimes hear people
sigh and cry, "A-ah! not long for this
worldr' resolved in those times that
never, III any COnNeTSdllOl, mOuiu soy -
thing depressing, and by the help OF God l
have kept the resolution. These people OF
whom speak reap and bind in the great
harvest field of discouragement. Some
days you greet them with hilarious,
Good morning." aud they come buzzlng
at you with some depressing information.
The Lord sent the hornet. 1t is astonlsh-
ing how some people prefer to write and to
say disagreeable things. That was the
case when years ago Henry NJ. Stanley re-
turned after his magnificent exploit OF lind
ing Doctor David Livingstone, and when
Mr. Stanley stood before the savants oil
Europe, and many of
THE SMALL CRITICS OF THE DAY,
under pretense of getting geographical IN
formation, put to him most insolent queS-
tions, he folded his arms and refused to
answer. At the very time when you would
suppose all decent men would have ap-
plauded the heroism of the man, there
were those to hiss. The Lord sent the
hornet And afterward when that man
sat down on the western coast ol Africa,